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January 8, 2010, Friday

John Lucas was fired yesterday as coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have the N.B.A.'s worst record and have shown few signs of development this season. The 48-year-old Lucas was in his second season with the Cavs, the league's youngest team, and...

January 21, 2003, Tuesday

John Lucas's career and life have been about second chances, and yesterday he got another shot at being an N.B.A. head coach -- this time with Cleveland. Lucas, who coached the San Antonio Spurs and the Philadelphia 76ers before spending the past...

June 20, 2001, Wednesday

John Lucas, who has had two previous stints as an N.B.A. coach, accepted the Cleveland Cavaliers coaching job yesterday, a league management source told The Associated Press. Lucas, who has spent the past three seasons as an assistant with the...

June 16, 2001, Saturday

Denver Nuggets Assistant Coach John Lucas met with Cavaliers officials yesterday about the team's coaching job, an N.B.A. management source told The Associated Press. Lucas visited with General Manager Jim Paxson for the second time since Randy...

June 12, 2001, Tuesday

John Lucas once joked that he demanded three titles when he took the job of rebuilding the Philadelphia 76ers, because friends told him to ask for as many as he could get. But after losing the titles of vice president of basketball operations...

May 14, 1996, Tuesday

For both Derrick Coleman and the Philadelphia 76ers, this has been a season of extraordinary frustration. The 76ers (10-37) have been awful. The team's owner, Harold Katz, reportedly came close to firing John Lucas as coach and hiring Chris Ford. ...

February 16, 1996, Friday

JOHN LUCAS can rest easy -- for now. Lucas will retain his titles as coach, general manager and vice president of basketball operations for the woeful Philadelphia 76ers, the owner, HAROLD KATZ, said yesterday. "He has my full support," said Katz,...

January 27, 1996, Saturday

A 2-9 start has put immediate pressure on Philadelphia's coach and general manager, John Lucas. Would Lucas step aside as coach if he felt, as general manager, that a change needed to be made? Lucas confirmed that he would consider it.

November 28, 1995, Tuesday

Practice was over, and John Lucas took a seat on the Philadelphia 76ers' bench to debate the wisdom of the franchise's recent decisions. Vernon Maxwell, the new starting point guard, was released by the Houston Rockets after months of erratic...